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There is a large segment of the populace which for some reason is titillated by horror; the greater the horror, the greater its titillation. Charles Addams is its deity. It chuckles weekly at his pictures of trains bearing down on people strapped to the rails, of teddy bears lashed to...
Simon and Schuster has now put a recent selection of these cartoons into an anthology, and this large single does of Addams points out one fact: he is not very funny. He has a stock family, a suitably ghoulish group of people, and he takes it through a series of...
This may be funny, on occasion. But it is a humor of simple incongruity, based only on the bizarre actions and appearances of its characters. The content of Addams' cartoons is monotonously repetitive; he simply switches the characters from one old situation to another. Addams shows little of the originality...
Up until the half-way mark, "Bell, Book, and Candle" is alive more because of the novelty of the situations and characters than because of any sparkling writing. At that point, however, the author becomes carried away by the on and offstage witchery. Toward the end, the play assumes the...
Addams himself has no idea how he gets his ideas, or why. He is, to all appearances, an easygoing six-footer with no troubles but how to get up in the morning, and he has never had a day of mental sickness in his 38 years. He lives in a...